Attempted to take a vacation today.. but still managed to work abotu a half a normal day.. all in all a good day . 

Cleaned my office, put away a ton of electronics.. and genereally prepared to try to do very little next week.   Around 4, DIane and I headed up to colchester for the quarterly VOMIT (Vermonsts own MIT club) meeting. Today was a tour of Twincraft soap.. i didn’t knwo what to expect.. but it was actually amazing !. .. Here are my fellow MIT alums 

 

my buddy KC’s car has a munny license plate.. her initials.. are the chemical symbol for Potassium  Cyanide 

she just had her 50th MIT reunion 

 

we all checked in to twincraft 

 

here is Kurt, Twincrafts main formulary inventor.. and our tour guide

 

here we are , gowned for the tour 

 

after a short presnetation.. we went down for the tour 

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here’s the raw soup in 1000 kg bags 

 

here’s scrap soap thats sold at cost to prisons. 

 

here’s the milling machine that shears the soap pellets 

 

here are the ingredient bays for the days runs.. 

 

one of the gieant mixers 

the pruductin floor below 

 

a pressing machine used to test spoap

 

african black soap after its first milling 

 

purpule soap !

 

2nd mixing and extruder 

 

adding exfoliants (oatmeal) 

 

heater 

 

cutter 

 

soap ingots 

 

the soap is warm and still flexible 

 

yellow soap 

 

boxing 

 

translucent soap 

 

lots and lots of finsihed product !

 

the soap dies .. they have over 5000 shapes

 

extra extruder screws

 

lots more ingrediants 

 

the soap lab.. where they expereiment 

 

 

it was 7 pm by the time we got out. I drove DIane back to Richmond.. then headed out to waterbury to meet my Burnign Man friends.   We’re planning next years projects. We met at Sun Commons, my freind Duanes company . 

 

 

It’s goona be great !

 

ok.. gotta sleep now.. more tomorrow from the road

 

nite all. nite sam

-me